Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

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How To Tacit Knowledge Intellectual Capital Newsletter 72

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Even when optimizing to a transaction, they do so with tacit knowledge of what each transaction is worth. Publishers have traditionally sold those "things" to them in an environment that operates with fairly little friction. Everything fit on a spreadsheet, or through an ad network.

Advertising 15

Advertising Tacit Knowledge Media Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Make tacit knowledge explicit by codifying the things you do in capabilities, but keep rethinking, improving, and reworking your codification. They start paying off as soon as you begin developing them, but they deepen and become more powerful over time, as you apply them to products and services around the world.

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IAM Productivity Products Company 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Predictive analytics is proving itself both powerful and perilous. Powerful, because advanced algorithms can take a near-unlimited number of factors into account, provide deep insights into variation, and scale to meet the needs of even the largest company. Perilous, because bad data and hidden false assumptions can seriously mislead.

Tacit Knowledge 11

Tacit Knowledge Information Technology Crisis Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. Our power train electronics are sophisticated and efficient — I think as good as anybody's. The Chinese company was soon selling exact copies of Prime's power supplies at steeply discounted prices.

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Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

These moments of aliveness in connection with others create a sense of safety and enhanced capability that become a powerful platform for development. High-quality connections are what Barbara Fredrickson calls micro moments of love. Don’t let the word “love” scare you.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Quality Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Predictive analytics is proving itself both powerful and perilous. Powerful, because advanced algorithms can take a near-unlimited number of factors into account, provide deep insights into variation, and scale to meet the needs of even the largest company. Perilous, because bad data and hidden false assumptions can seriously mislead.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Crisis Trends Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

There's no question that it's easier to recognize the power of great leaders than it is to fill your company with them — especially when the lure of fast growth can lull you into complacency about maintaining high standards. Your former employees (sorry, alumni) can be a powerful source of future business.

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Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Actively seeking out flaws and weaknesses and doing something about them is a powerful means of reducing the fear of failure. Intuition is a potent source of information, and research has demonstrated that among experts, tacit knowledge and gut instinct lead to rapid and effective decision-making.

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Self-aware Tacit Knowledge Mentor 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The other challenge is the amount of tacit knowledge involved in improving the performance of large systems — insight and understanding not easily captured or conveyed by numbers, formulas, or recipes. By definition, tacit knowledge comes with time — so outsiders must approach organizations with humility.

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